Re: On PEAR quality issues and natural selection

On Fri Apr 09, 2004 at 01:4142PM -0500, Paul M Jones wrote: > One might even add (3) a public rating and comment system I have also been thinking about this lately and I must say that I find a rating system very appealing. It will surely not be the solution to all of the current problems, but giving people a way to provide feedback is certainly a good thing. In addition to asking the users for ratings, we might also figure out some way to gather automated ratings based on e.g. the number of open bugs. This will need some serious thoughts. > to mark a > package's conformance to individual aspects of the PEAR standards. I think the rating should not only be about the conformance to the standards, but also about the ease of use and overall contentment with the package. > This would allow distribution of effort among all users to highlight > what packages need attention, and PEAR-QA would have instant feedback > on what packages are not compliant. Another advantage is that people will more easily be able to distinguish between "good" packages the rest by comparing the ratings. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/